From owner-freebsd-net Sat Jan 6 9:17:41 2001 From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 6 09:17:38 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from virtual.sysadmin-inc.com (lists.sysadmin-inc.com [209.16.228.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B40DB37B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 09:17:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from wkst ([209.16.228.146]) by virtual.sysadmin-inc.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA18062 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 12:22:57 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Peter Brezny" To: Subject: general question re: PTR records. Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 12:16:51 -0800 Message-ID: <000101c0781d$9b4a5ae0$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Why are PTR records placed in zone db files separate from all other resource records? For small domains, wouldn't it be simpler to just have your reverse ip to name mappings in the same zone db file as your forward name to ip mappings? Something like jack.com. IN A x.y.z.q ... q.z.y.x-in.addr.arpa. IN PTR jack.com. I realize the advantage of having one big reverse zone db file for your subnet as far as the amount of raw data entry is required, but for a small host it seems a little more straight forward to put everything for a domain in one db file. I've read through all of ch4 in dns & bind, and haven't come across anything that says you couldn't do it this way... Will named accept this? Is it just a really bad idea? TIA Peter Brezny SysAdmin Services Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message